To wash or not to wash the Great debate

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I wash most of my fabric. I put pieces smaller than a yard in lingerie bags to wash. I love to put a good movie on the TV, set the ironing board at the lowest level, pull up my chair and iron to a good movie. After, I wash and iron, I put a small safety pin at one end of the fabric. In the future, I know that piece has been washed.

I tried to pre-wash when I got started a few months back, but the strings of fury! THE HORRIBLE KNOTS! THE TERROR OF TANGLES! This idea sounds hopeful for the frightful fraying, but the wretched wrinkles still scare me. Like most of us, I buy all the fabric I can if it's a deal, meaning bolts of it. The wrinkles are so bad that I can't ever get them out.
Also, doesn't everyone iron and starch fabric they don't wash? My non-crafting mother can't understand how I can enjoy a task that takes as much ironing as quilting. I feel like I'm married to my iron even though I don't pre-wash. Sounds like the washers do it with a smile because they enjoy ironing, but I iron just as much (just not as hard since they aren't as creased.)

i put them in the dryer until they are almost dry. fold smooth, fold smooth, i don't do a lot of ironing.

when i forget to take them out soon enough, yeah i get to iron our the wrinkles an pull off the tangles, they just don't bother me that much. i have more important things to worry about than fabric tangles. like what after school snack the kids won't turn their noses up at, where's the quilt i seem to have lost, when am i going to lunch with mom, why i'm being infiltrated by tree frogs,

these days i mostly worry about how in the world all the frogs are getting in my house. the screen door is closed, they seem to be congregating around the sink maybe the window has an opening. they hop into my house, get on the carpet, turn very pale trying to turn ecru, and die. i am removing, dried dead, nearly dead or still hopping critters every morning.

don't worry nancy, they don't get all the way back to your bedroom. they can't hop that far, i guess.

Gini, If they are tree frogs we are having the same issues in Spokane. I also heard on the news the other day that they are PROTECTED! How can that be, we are seeing more this year than ever before. My Shi Tzu tries to catch them.